C000027546 Fees and Costs — AZL T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund, Class 2

Data updated: 2026-08-25

The net expense ratio is 1.05%: a 0.75% management fee, a 0.25% 12b-1 fee plus 0.05% other expenses. There are no sales loads or redemption fees. In fiscal 2025 the fund paid $186K in broker commissions, 0.0186% of average net assets, and portfolio turnover was 89%.

C000027546 Fees and Expenses

Annual operating expenses and sales charges of C000027546. Prospectus, as of April 30, 2016.

Annual operating expenses
Management fee0.75%
12b-1 fee0.25%
Other expenses0.05%
Gross expense ratio1.05%
Fee waiver—
Net expense ratio1.05%
Sales charges
Max front load—
Max deferred load—
Redemption fee—
Expense limitation in place (N-CEN)Yes
Fees waived or reduced during the yearYes
Waived fees subject to recoupmentNo

C000027546 Costs Over Time

On $10,000 invested in C000027546, assuming 5% a year before costs, total costs come to $667 over 5 years, cutting the return by 1.12% a year. Illustration, not a forecast: it assumes today's net expense ratio throughout (a fee waiver may end).

$10,000 investedSell after 1 yearSell after 3 yearsSell after 5 years
Value before costs$10,500$11,576$12,763
Fund expenses (net expense ratio 1.05%)$110$344$596
Trading costs (broker commissions)$2$6$11
Lost growth on money paid in costs$0$17$61
Total costs$112$367$667
Value after costs$10,388$11,209$12,095
Impact on return, per year1.12%1.12%1.12%

C000027546 Trading Costs

Brokerage costs reported on SEC Form N-CEN for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

  • Explicit cost rate (commissions ÷ average net assets): 0.0186%
  • Total broker commissions: $186K
  • Bought from dealers (principal trades, not a cost): $1.7B
  • Portfolio turnover (prospectus): 89%
  • Securities on loan, average value: $1.5M
  • Net income from securities lending: $9K (0.001% of average net assets)

C000027546 Agency Brokers

Commissions paid.

BrokerAmountShare
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$24K17.50%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$22K16.22%
Jefferies LLC$17K12.23%
BMO Capital Markets Corp.$15K11.01%
UBS Securities LLC$15K10.79%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$10K7.05%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$9K6.87%
Pershing LLC$9K6.41%
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated$8K6.23%
Cowen and Company, LLC$8K5.69%

C000027546 Dealer Counterparties

Securities bought directly from dealers (principal trades).

BrokerAmountShare
BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC$669.1M39.07%
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.$254.2M14.84%
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC$206.8M12.07%
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC$199.4M11.65%
Barclays Capital Inc.$161.8M9.45%
BofA Securities, Inc.$131.1M7.66%
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.$35.8M2.09%
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC$34.8M2.03%
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC$11.8M0.69%
RBC Capital Markets, LLC$7.7M0.45%

For information only. Not investment advice: figures are as reported in SEC filings and may contain errors or be out of date. Past performance does not guarantee future results.